As for what is inaccurately characterized as Ebonics in the book, Id have to wonder if someone who could see such a shadow where none exists might not be carrying around their own collection of racial guilt or if theyve ever even had any close friends of another race at all.

Ebonics, which is also known as African American Vernacular English, has been described by the psychologist who coined the term as the combination of English vocabulary with African language structure.

Similarly, white voters, as well as quite a few blacks, are turned off by what in recent years has been called Ebonics, a speech pattern popular especially among the young in black communities that takes liberal liberties with the English language.